Director Nisha Ganatra scored points with me for delivering a smart, female-driven comedy last year in Late Night with Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling. It was set in the showbiz sector of late-night television talk shows but focused on two women, very different yet striving for similar professional goals in a…
EXCLUSIVE: Nisha Ganatra is attached to direct a feature about an Indian boy band, which was just sold to Universal with Marc Platt Productions producing. It’s inspired by the teenage years of Savan Kotecha, a Grammy-nominated music producer and songwriter.
Kotecha, who will oversee original music for the pic, has…
EXCLUSIVE:Late Night director Nisha Ganatra has signed a two-year overall deal with ABC Studios, a division of Disney Television Studios. Under the pact, Ganatra will write, direct and develop projects across all platforms through her newly launched Ladies’ Car Productions banner.
The overall deal with Ganatra…
EXCLUSIVE: Ice Cube is in the midst of making deals to star in a pair of movies. He has just closed with Focus Features to join the cast of the Working Title-produced film Covers, directed by Late Night helmer Nisha Ganatra. Production is just getting underway and he is starring alongside Tracee Ellis Ross and Dakota…
At last, women are directing tentpole features, an arena in which they've historically been sidelined. The big comic book franchises are on board too, finally hiring from the plethora of talented women in the industry. Cathy Yan and Ava DuVernay are helming two of DC Films' upcoming blockbusters for Warner Bros., Birds…
Dakota Johnson and Golden Globe winner Tracee Ellis Ross of TV’s Black-ish have signed on as the leads in Covers, a comedy set among the talent, fame and fast-paced world of Hollywood's music scene from Focus Features and Working Title Films. Nisha Ganatra, whose comedy Late Night made a big splash at this year’s…
Mindy Kaling was just 24 when she became both the first woman and the first person of color to join the writing staff of The Office. 14 years later, this January, her production company Kaling International sold the film she wrote, Late Night,in a record deal with Amazon at Sundance. She also just had her newest film…
EXCLUSIVE: Film Independent is looking to enrich and inspire the industry with its latest lineup of keynotes, films and panelists for its 14th annual Film Independent Forum. Keynotes will be delivered by Late Night filmmaker Nisha Ganatra and Len Amato President of HBO Films. The Forum will kick off with a screening…
As part of the Stella Artois & Deadline Sundance Series, Nisha Ganatra, Bruna Papandrea, and Cathy Schulman sat down for special Women in Film panel titled "#GotStamped: Gender Parity Success Stories" moderated by Amanda N’Duka.
Ganatra collaborated with Mindy Kaling for Late Night which, Deadline exclusively reported…
After the electric Sundance Film Festival premiere for Late Night, the pic’s star/writer Mindy Kaling and director Nisha Ganatra woke to learn that their female-driven comedy Late Night sold to Amazon for an unprecedented $13M, as Deadline exclusively reported.
“Sundance has been a dream for so long, you read about…
The Stella Artois & Deadline Sundance Series at the Sundance Film Festival continues today with Late Night, which has been one of the most anticipated films of the fest — so much that Amazon closed a record-breaking $13 million deal, as Deadline exclusively reported after its premiere on Friday.
The film follows…
UPDATE: Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke on the record setting Late Night deal: “Mindy Kaling has crafted the rare film that is both entertaining and powerful. The moment the lights came up after the premiere, we knew Late Night is a film our viewers will love and talk about. It's an incisive workplace comedy that…
